No matter how much space Reso, Jerax and s4 make Notail shows once again that he is willing to throw it all away by not even trying to farm. This is legitimately the most tilting thing to watch as an OG fan

To be honest, it isn't about winning/losing. It's the blatant terrible play. N0tail never has farm and always feeds. S4 just being plain underwhelming for a 9k player. Jerax only being allowed to play two heroes. It feels like they have let themselves fall off.

S4 said in Bulldog's chat that he isn't part of the league, and from what I gather, they aren't inviting more people now that the league has started. I guess at the start of next season you will see more pro players join.

I actually love it. I play ability draft a lot and Shockwave is a spell I always first/second pick as the aghs is too good. A lot of the time you get some Bulba-mag that's always hiding in the trees looking for a perfect RP but never end up doing anything. The aghs fixes that. The long range slow + damage allows you to be super useful without putting yourself in the open.

I still rush bloodstone on Lesh. Even at 1-2 charges there is nothing that gives you as much mana regen, and you desperately need it. I buy it once at the start then rebuy the bloodstone for the last zone.

What? Just like the other guy said, you get around 250 just for making it to the boss. The boss is so darn easy that we beat it with two people doing it for their first time with no more than 3 artifacts between the four of us (and this is from someone who had a very hard time beating the act 1 boss).

A quick glimps at the dotabuff of the match doesn't tell the entire story. Yes he has decent hero damage, you will get that when you drop a midnight pulse on a team pushing up hill. It doesn't change the fact that he only casted blackhole a total of 5 times the entire game. It doesn't change the fact that everytime Dubu entered a teamfight he would spam some stupid meme-macro. It doesn't change the fact that RTZ and Zai were clearly getting frustrated in that game wondering what was going on.

If you legitimately want to see it for yourself, watch the vods on Zai's and RTZ's stream. This wasn't just a one off. I watched RTZ a lot during that week and it was a pattern everytime he ran into Abed with DC members. Whenever DC members were against Abed they would just meme in allchat and clown around. Yeah, they weren't running down mid feeding couriers but they clearly weren't trying.

This isn't some grand conspiracy here. People like swindel who plays on NA noticed it enough to call it out on twitter.

All this Abed hate really just seems to have taken on some seriously warped groupthink that falls apart when you look at the actual games played, and in particular how he did with and against DC and non-DC players.

This simply isn't true. When Zai was streaming he played a match against Abed where Dubu was on his team. Dubu was playing awful the entire game. Running into fog and feeding. Didn't bother to land a single blackhole on Abed until after he had aegis. Spamming meme's in allchat. He clearly didn't give a single fuck about winning. Zai was so annoyed that he reported Dubu after the match.